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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

Edward Albee

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing

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